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GEORGE R. NEUMANN AND. HERMANN H. NEUMANN, or -NEw YORK, N. Y.

ALE-PUM P..

SPECIFICATION forming' part of Letters Patent No. 564,834, dated July28, 1896.

Application filed January 22,1896. Serial 1.o. 576,462. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom, t may concern.-

Be it known that we, GEORGE R. NEU- MANN and HERMANN H. NEUMANN, of NewYork city, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and'useful /Improvement in Ale-Pumps, of which the following is a full,clear, and exact description.

Our invention relates to an improvement in pumps, especially to animprovement in alepumps, or pumps of that character, the object of theinvention being to so connect a any desired position or at any angle andthe piston-rod be operated without binding in the cylinder of the pumpno matter in what sit-ion the lever or equivalent operative device thatmay be employed may be located.

The invention consists lin the novel construction and combination of these ,ral parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed outin the claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompa..ying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar characters of refereYr j indicate corresponding partsin all the lrcs.

Figure lis a vertical section thror l a portion of a bar, illustratingthe invention as applied to an ale-pump and the pump in position behindthe bar. Fig. 2 is avetical section through the ttings behind the bar,illustrating a series of pumps in side elevation; and Fig. 3 is aplanview of the series of pumps shown in Fig. 2.

In carrying out the invention the bar A is of any approved construr ldmaybe of any desired height, and at the rear of the bar a tray B isrepresented as being suspended in a horizontal position. be... theaforesaid tray the improved pumps C are placed, being connected with anyapproved support. In the drawings the said pumps are shown as attachedby straps to the vertical portion of the bar.

The pumps C are of the usual construction adapted for drawing ale andlike liquids, and the piston-rod 10 extends a predetermined distancebeyond the top of the pump. A yoke 11 is attached to the piston-rod,extending downward at each side of the pump, being adapted, no matter inwhat position the 1, and the lower extremities of the two straps oryokes are connected by pivot-pins 12a or their equivalents, so that thelarger strap or oke 12 mav have swin'iufr movement u on v D t:

the smaller or inner one.

Adjacent to each pump a shaft 13 is preferablyjournaled in any suitableor approved manner, and one of said shafts 13 is connected with theupper portion of the outer yoke of each pump through the medium of acrankarm 11, integral with or attached to the shaft. Each shaft is alsoprovided at a predetermined point in its length with an inclined socketor sleeve 15, adapted to receive a manipulating rod or lever 16. Theserods or levers are secured at one of their ends in the sockets orsleeves 15, and extend outward at more or less of an acute angle to theshaft with which they are connected. The levers 16, when the pumps arenot in operation, are adapted to lie parallel with one another, being ina horizontal position, as shown in Fig. 2, and the outer end of eachlever 16 is bent outward horizontally at an angle to the body, forming acentral outwardly-extending section 17, and each of these sections isconnected with a straight end section, to which a handle 17 is secured.Under this construction, as shown in Fig. 3, when all of the levers arein a horizontal position the handle of one lever will be substantiallyin alinement with the handle of an adjacent lever, yet each lever may bemanipulated without interfering one with the other.

Ordinarily the pumps C are so placed as to be concealed behind the barand may be arranged close to the bar, and the handles of themanipulating bars or levers 16 are at the inner side of the trays B orotherpartitions or inward extensions of the fixtures. Each pump isconnected by a tube 19 with a source of liquid supply in the usual way,and an outlet-pipe 2O is also employed to discharge the liquid wheneverdesired.

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It is obvious that under the foregoing construction, no matter in whatposition the pumps may be or Where placed, the lifting power beingapplied to the outer yoke or strap l2 will compel the inner strap oryoke to operate the piston-rod l0 Without bringing the piston-rod 'inbinding engagement with the pump-cylinder; and it is furthermoreimmaterial at what angle the manipulating device for the piston-rod maybe placed to the same. Furthermore, under the construction of the pumpillustrated, the pump may be placed conveniently in locations that wouldnot admit of the operation of the ordinary form of ale-pump or pump ofthat character.

Having thus described our invention, We

lVitnesses:

J. FRED. ACKER, A. A. HOPKINS.

